In the middle of the 2006 season, he replaced Gabriele Delli Colli as Felipe Massa's race engineer.

[7] Following Massa's injury at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Smedley carried on with the role of race engineer for stand-in drivers Luca Badoer and Giancarlo Fisichella as they took over Massa's seat for the remainder of the 2009 season.

", a thinly veiled instruction to allow Alonso to pass him to win, which Massa duly complied with.

[9] Smedley was awarded an honorary degree ("Doctor of Professional Studies") from Teesside University in 2009.

[10] In July 2015 he was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Technology from Loughborough University in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Formula 1 and race engineering.